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Well-fenced stream

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Well-fenced stream

Excluding animals from waterways by putting up fences is a recommended practice to improve water quality.

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Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, Water quality – Management of water quality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15559/well-fenced-stream (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mike Scarsbrook and Kit Rutherford, published 1 March 2009, updated 18 July 2016.